How to Write a Winning SIC Investment Thesis (2026)
A step-by-step 2026 method for the SIC investment thesis: idea, research, a simple valuation case, risks, and conviction — why reasoning beats raw returns at the judging table.
Read →Dispatches from the SIC academic desk — rubric explainers, S15 season bulletins, Omaha Dialogue recaps, and alumni notes. The desk publishes during active seasons and goes quiet between them.
A step-by-step 2026 method for the SIC investment thesis: idea, research, a simple valuation case, risks, and conviction — why reasoning beats raw returns at the judging table.
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The Student Investment Challenge (SIC) and the Wharton Global High School Investment Competition serve overlapping audiences with fundamentally different formats. SIC is a five-month, rubric-judged academic research program;…
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The Student Investment Challenge (SIC) is a CEE-endorsed academic research program for high school students in grades 6-12, operated for fifteen seasons by SKT. Two parallel tracks (Junior…
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The three-source rule, the corrections policy, and why we hold our editorial dispatches to the same standard as the Senior Division rubric.
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Three books, two transcripts, one framework. What the program desk actually hands first-time participants — and what to skip during your first season.
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An S11-S13 SIC alum, now at NYU Stern, on the difference between interesting and defensible — and what she would skip if she did it again.
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The S15 application window runs March 20 to June 1, 2026. What the WeChat-only intake conversation covers, what changes between seasons, and a few first-48-hour questions.
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A deep walkthrough of the four-axis judging rubric — what scores well, what scores down, and how S15 entrants should internalize the framework before submission.
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The S15 season has four stages spanning March through August. Each makes a different demand on your time and your thinking. A short field guide for new participants.
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Why SIC times its midpoint summit to the Berkshire Hathaway annual meeting, what happens during the three days, and how it has shaped the program since S4.
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For 15 seasons the team that posts the highest return is almost never the team that wins. Why SIC has, since S1, judged on conviction rather than terminal…
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